ジョシュア・レナードさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ジョシュア・レナードInstagram)「The older I get, and the more direct-hit pain I see in my own life and the world around me, the more politics-as-business-as-organizing-entity becomes both abstract and anathema to me. Yes, on some level, this is willfully naïve. It's also kinda lazy, as I can't even begin to comprehend the cultural complexity/context and historical trauma I'd want to understand before feeling right and righteous about killing anyone. But I do wonder as a thought-experiment - in my saddest, but maybe most-pragmatic moments - whether we just need to be looking at pictures of each other’s dead babies all the time... in efforts to either A: Self-immolate from our stifling, near-sighted tribalism, or B. Regain some small thread of global humanity. Above the tribe and out of the peripheral view of 'righteousness'…. who are we and who do we want to be? To be clear, I'm not arguing for socialism... nor anything with a name or political history. Just offering up the idea that maybe there's a way we could become less trenchant? A way we could live and love less fearfully? A way we could die with less regrets of the ilk that always get written about at the end of the story? Personally, I believe that one’s humanity lives separately from one’s political values. IMHO, OUR humanity was never supposed to be on the chopping block for crude polemics. They were, in fact, usurped and stolen ‘for the tribe'. (And yes, late-stage capitalism, blah, blah). My point: Maslow's tiers of 'basic needs': #1 food, water, warmth, sleep, and #2 security, safety. You know that viral video of the runner who stopped just short of the finish line so he could wait for his friend and they could finish together? And then we all cheered. You know every non-Schadenfreude viral video about someone or something helping someone or something? We still have that in us somewhere. 📸 credit: unknown」11月2日 13時29分